Surface Transport

Publication Date	March 2009
Publisher	Cygnus
Product Type	Report
Pages	110
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	CYG00081

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Summary

Introduction:

Road transport has a dominant role in India's transportation sector with a share of 4.6% in India's GDP in 2007-08 as per the data released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO). The aggregate length of roads in India increased from 0.4m km in 1950-51 to 3.314 million km by the end of 2007-08. The road network handles about 65% of the freight and 85% of the passenger traffic. As per the data released by CSO, during the 10th Five Year Plan the average annual growth in road sector is around 10%.

The Indian Railways combined route kilometres (rkm) of three gauges (broad, meter and narrow) went up from 53,596 rkm in 1950-51 to 63,327 rkm as of March 31, 2007 and around 28% of its rail network is electrified. The gross receipts of railways grew fromRs544.91 billion in 2005-06 to Rs627.32 billion in 2006-07. Interestingly, the revenue of Indian railways is growing at a CAGR of around 10% over the last six years, i.e. since 2000-01.

Key Findings and Highlights

The road transport's share in freight traffic has gone up from 13.8% in 1950-51 to over 65% in 2006-07. It is expected to reach 1,231 billion tonne Km (BTKM) in 2011-12, with a share of 65% in the freight movement in India
During 2007-08, Indian Railways carried 794.21m tonnes of revenue earned cargo, witnessing an excellent growth rate of 8.98% against the previous year
The government has assessed an outlay of Rs. 1,217.58 billion for the development of National Highways during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012). The share of private sector investment during the 11th Five Year Plan is estimated to be Rs. 877.35 billion
During the 11th Five Year Plan, the Indian Railways has allocated a total plan outlay of Rs. 2,300 billion. Dedicated Freight Corridors on the Western and Eastern routes will be laid at an estimated investment of Rs. 220 billion.

Reasons to Buy

Provides industry structure with reference to global logistics industry, brief about intermediaries, market dynamics and cost structure, growth drivers, major issues and challenges, major players, regulatory issues and outlook.
The report is useful for logistics players to update their industry knowledge, industry analysts to make use of related industry statistics and other important facts and issues about surface logistics, foreign industry research houses and students enrolled in specialised curriculum in logistics.

Content

1. Executive Summary
2. Highlights
3. Logistics Industry Structure
- 3.1 Global Logistics Industry Overview
  - 3.1.1 Components of Logistics Cost
- 3.2 Indian Logistics Industry Overview
  - 3.2.1 Spending on Logistics in India
  - 3.2.2 Cost Component of Indian Logistics Industry
  - 3.2.3 Infrastructure Development - Boost to Logistics Industry
4. Surface Transport System in India
- 4.1 Road Transport system in India
  - 4.1.1 Road Network in India
  - 4.1.2 Road network characteristics
  - 4.1.3 Trends in Road Freight in India
  - 4.1.4 Structure of Road Freight Industry
  - 304.1.5 Road Infrastructure and Role of NHAI
  - 304.1.6 Carriers
- 4.2 Railways
  - 4.2.1 Overview of Indian Railway
  - 4.2.2 Management of Indian Railways
  - 4.2.3 Rail network
  - 4.2.4 Freight & passenger traffic
  - 4.2.5 The Corporatization of Indian Railways
  - 4.2.6 Recent developments
5. Intermediaries and Support Service Providers
- 5.1 Reasons to Outsource Logistics Functions
5.2PL Market Size
- 5.3 Function of Third Party Logistics
- 415.4 State of 3PL in India
- 5.5 Fourth Party Logistics (4PL)
- 5.6 Clearing & Forwarding Agents
- 435.7 Warehousing
6. Market Dynamics
- 6.1 Market size
  - 6.1.1 Road Transport
  - 6.1.2 Railways
- 6.2 Demand Supply Scenario
  - 6.2.1 Roads
7. Growth drivers
- 7.1 Economic growth
- 7.2 Global trade
- 7.3 Corporate Trend
- 7.4 Improved infrastructure
- 7.5 Growth in the manufacturing sector and retail boom
- 7.6 Emergence of global manufacturing networks and increased FDI
- 7.7 Information technology
- 7.8 Liberalization and Deregulation
- 557.9 Development of E-commerce
8. Technology & Innovation
- 578.1 Road Transport Sector
- 8.2 Indian Railways
9. Major Players
- 9.1 Transport Corporation of India (TCI)
  - 9.1.1 Key corporate data
  - 9.1.2 Business profile
  - 9.1.3 Financial performance
  - 9.1.4 Recent developments
  - 9.1.5 Strategies
- 9.2 Balmer Lawrie
  - 9.2.1 Key corporate data
  - 9.2.2 Business profile
  - 9.2.3 Financial performance
  - 9.2.4 Recent developments
  - 9.2.5 Strategies
- 9.3 Gati
  - 9.3.1 Key corporate data
  - 9.3.2 Business profile
  - 9.3.3 inancial performance
  - 9.3.4 Recent developments
  - 9.3.5 Strategies
- 9.4 Indian Railways
  - 9.4.1 Corporate Profile
  - 9.4.2 Financial performance
  - 9.4.3 Strategies
10. Cost Structure
11. Issues and Challenges
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Road Transport
  - 11.2.1 Infrastructural Bottlenecks
  - 11.2.2 Nature of Road Transportation
  - 11.2.3 Overloading
  - 11.2.4 Ageing trucks increases fuel bills
  - 11.2.5 Taxation
  - 11.2.6 Trucking safety
- 11.3 Railways
  - 11.3.1 Infrastructural Bottlenecks
  - 11.3.2 Losing Ground to Roadways
  - 11.3.3. Safety, Modernisation and Upgradation
  - 11.3.4 Human Resources
  - 11.3.5 Others
12. Government Initiatives, Schemes & Regulations
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Roads
  - 12.2.1 NHDP
  - 12.2.2 PPP in Road Infrastructure
  - 12.2.3 Draft of National Road Safety Policy
  - 12.2.4 Port Connectivity
- 12.3 Railways
  - 12.3.1 Major Initiatives during 11th Plan
  - 12.3.2 Dedicated Freight Corridor
  - 12.3.3 Privatisation of Railway Container Movements
- 12.4 Regulations
  - 12.4.1 Road Transport
  - 12.4.2 Railways
13. Future Outlook
- 13.1 Road Transport
- 13.2 Railways
Annexure I: List of Abbreviations
Annexure II: Bibliography
List Of Figures
- Figure 3.1: Elements of Global Logistics Costs, 2007-08
- Figure 3.2: Logistics Industry Structure
- Figure 3.3: Spending on logistics in India
- Figure 3.4: Elements of Logistics Costs In India, 2007-08
- Figure 4.1: Road Network Structure in India
- Figure 4.2: Distribution of Roads in India, 2007
- Figure 4.3: Road Freight Index in India
- Figure 4.4: Road Freight (Organised Vs Unorganised)
- Figure 4.5: Map of NHDP projects
- Figure 4.6: Railway Network
- Figure 4.7: Roads and Railways Freight and Passenger Traffic Share 2007-08)
- Figure 4.8: Trends in Indian Railways Freight Movement
- Figure 4.9: Railway Freight Revenue
- Figure 6.1: Market Size of Road Transport Industry (at 1999-00 prices)
- Figure 6.2: Indian Railways Revenue Earning Breaup
- Figure 7.1: India's GDP Growth Rate
- Figure 7.2: India's ExporImport Growth Rate
- Figure 9.1: TCI Segmenwise Revenue Breaup (2007-08)
- Figure 9.2: TCI Sales
- Figure 9.3: TCI Profit After Tax
- Figure 9.4: Balmer Lawrie Segmenwise Revenue Breaup (2007-08)
- Figure 9.5: Balmer Lawrie Sales
- Figure 9.6: Balmer Lawrie Profit After Tax
- Figure 9.7: Gati Segment wise Revenue Breaup (2007-08)
- Figure 9.8: Gati Sales
- Figure 9.9: Gati Profit After Tax
- Figure 9.10: Trends in Operating Ratio of Indian Railways (in %)
- Figure 9.11: Trends in Gross Traffic Receipts of IR
- Figure 11.1: Railway Vs Roads (1950 - 51)
- Figure 11.2: Railway Vs Roads (2007-08)
- Figure 13.1: Forecasted Road Freight in India.
List Of Tables
- Table 3.1: Projected spending on Infrastructure from 2007-08 to 2011-12
- Table 4.1: Indian Road Network
- Table 4.2: Road Network as on December 2007
- Table 4.3: Development of Roads in India
- Table 4.4: NHDP Projects
- Table 4.5: Indian Railway Zones
- Table 4.6: Rail Network 2006-07
- Table 4.7: Key Statistics of Indian Railways, 2006-07
- Table 4.8: Commoditwise Breaup in Indian Railways
- Table 6.1: 11th Five Year Plan - Investments Details
- Table 9.1: Financial Highlights of TCI
- Table 9.2: Financial Highlights of Balmer Lawrie
- Table 9.3: Financial Highlights of Gati
- Table 11.1: Ownership Pattern of Trucks
- Table 11.2: Trucks and its Payload Capacity
- Table 11.3: Agwise average distance covered by trucks
- Table 12.1: 11th Five Year Plan - Investments Details
- Table 12.2: Status of NHDP & Other NHAI Projects (Status: October 31, 2008)
- Table 12.3: Ongoing and Sanctioned Port Connectivity Projects
- Table 12.4: Head wise Summary of 11th Plan Outlay
- Table 12.5 Guidelines of Railway Transportation of Hazardous Goods
- Table 13.1: 11th Five Year Plan Projections for Road Freight (2007-08 to 2011-12)
- Table 13.2: Average Cost of Truck/ton km
- Table 13.3: Forecasts of TraffiDifferent Scenarios